Forthcoming Geography Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Cambodia's Neoliberal Order

   Violence, Authoritarianism, and the Contestation of Public Space

   By Simon Springer

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   Neoliberal economics have emerged in the post-Cold War era as the predominant ideological tenet applied to the development of countries in the global south. For much of the global south, however, the promise that markets will bring increased standards of living and emancipation from tyranny has...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
2. Neoliberal Governance and International Medical Travel in Malaysia

   By Meghann Ormond

   Series: Routledge Pacific Rim Geographies

   International medical travel (IMT), people crossing national borders in the pursuit of healthcare, has become a growing phenomenon. With many of the countries currently being promoted as IMT destinations holding ‘developing’ status, IMT poses a significant challenge to popular assumptions about who...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
3. Refugee Women

   Beyond Gender versus Culture

   By Leah Bassel

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Debates over the headscarf and niqab, so-called ‘sharia-tribunals’, Female Genital Operations and forced marriages have raged in Europe and North America in recent years, raising the question – does accommodating Islam violate women’s rights? The book takes issue with the terms of this debate. It...

   To Be Published June 3rd 2012 by Routledge
4. Ethics and Justice for the Environment

   By Adrian Armstrong

   Examining the issues of ethics and justice as they apply to the environment, this book starts from the observation that the parallel expositions of environmental ethics and environmental justice appear to have few points of contact. Environmental justice is highly politicized and concerned...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
5. Transnationalism and Urbanism

   Edited by Stefan Krätke, Kathrin Wildner, Stephan Lanz

   Series: Routledge Research in Transnationalism

   The formation of transnational urban spaces is a relevant and challenging field of interdisciplinary research, which deserves much more debate in order to deepen our understanding of generating and restructuring urban spaces under conditions of contemporary globalisation processes. This edited...

   To Be Published June 7th 2012 by Routledge
6. Advances in Geo-Spatial Information Science

   Edited by Wenzhong Shi, Michael Goodchild, Brian Lees, Yee Leung

   Advances in Geo-Spatial Information Science presents recent advances regarding fundamental issues of geo-spatial information science (space and time, spatial analysis, uncertainty modeling and geo-visualization), and new scientific and technological research initiatives for geo-spatial information...

   To Be Published June 7th 2012 by CRC Press
7. Host Cities and the Olympics

   An Interactionist Approach

   By Harry Hiller

   Series: Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society

   Rather than interpreting the Olympics as primarily a sporting event of international or national significance, this book understands the Games as a civic project for the host city that serves as a catalyst for a variety of urban interests over a period of many years from the bidding phase through...

   To Be Published June 13th 2012 by Routledge
8. Social Geography (Routledge Revivals)

   Progress and Prospect

   Edited by Michael Pacione

   The examination of social questions is a relatively new development in goegraphy, but social geography has now blossomed into a fully fledged sub-discipline which has in fact influenced significantly all other areas of geography. This book, first published in 1987, presents an overview of recent...

   To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
9. Mobility, Space and Culture

   By Peter Merriman

   Series: International Library of Sociology

   Over the past ten to fifteen years there has emerged an increasing concern with mobility in the social sciences and humanities. In Mobility, Space and Culture, Peter Merriman provides an important and timely contribution to the mobilities turn in the social sciences, encouraging academics to...

   To Be Published June 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Routledge Atlas of Central Eurasian Affairs

    By Stanley D. Brunn, Stanley W. Toops, Richard Gilbreath

    Providing concisely written entries on the most important current issues in Central Asia and Eurasia, this atlas offers relevant background information on the region’s place in the contemporary political and economic world. Features include: Profiles of the constituent countries of Central Asia,...

    To Be Published June 25th 2012 by Routledge